Why does it ask for user and password?

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I have a desktop and laptop, both with Win2K,connected on a home network. Up
to about a week ago, they shared files perfectly. In particular, this
happenened: when you browsed network neighborhood and clicked on, say, My
Documents (shared) of the desktop from the laptop, it would simply open up
that folder. That was all there was to it.

But then the desktop had a hard disk crash, and I got a new disk and
reinstalled Win2K.

Now it behaves differently, and I would like to know why. Now, when I click
on the shared My Documents, it presents me with a request to login to
connect, with user and password. When I do that, then it completes the
action and opens the folder.

So why did it NOT ask before, and DOES ask now? Where are the settings that
determine whether it asks for user name and password? They must exist
somewhere, because, as I said, it did NOT ask before the reinstall.

Thanks,

John
 
JMF said:
I have a desktop and laptop, both with Win2K,connected on a home network. Up
to about a week ago, they shared files perfectly. In particular, this
happenened: when you browsed network neighborhood and clicked on, say, My
Documents (shared) of the desktop from the laptop, it would simply open up
that folder. That was all there was to it.

But then the desktop had a hard disk crash, and I got a new disk and
reinstalled Win2K.

Now it behaves differently, and I would like to know why. Now, when I click
on the shared My Documents, it presents me with a request to login to
connect, with user and password. When I do that, then it completes the
action and opens the folder.

So why did it NOT ask before, and DOES ask now? Where are the settings that
determine whether it asks for user name and password? They must exist
somewhere, because, as I said, it did NOT ask before the reinstall.

Thanks,

John
Click to expand...

When you turn up at the entrance of your office and flash
your ID card then the janitor (if you have one) will check
in his database if someone under the name of John Doe is
registered. If yes then he lets you in. If no then he challenges
you for your name.

You currently log on to our desktop as Jack Doe. Your
laptop does not know Jack Doe, so it challenges you.

The cure? Make sure that the desktop logon account/password
is also defined on the laptop. It's as simple as that!
 
Pegasus (MVP) said:
network.

When you turn up at the entrance of your office and flash
your ID card then the janitor (if you have one) will check
in his database if someone under the name of John Doe is
registered. If yes then he lets you in. If no then he challenges
you for your name.

You currently log on to our desktop as Jack Doe. Your
laptop does not know Jack Doe, so it challenges you.

The cure? Make sure that the desktop logon account/password
is also defined on the laptop. It's as simple as that!
Click to expand...

Not only did you solve that mystery for me, but you also solved the problem
I *really* had, which was why I asked the question (I suspected that was the
reason): I couldn't print to the shared printer on the desktop any more.
Unfortunately, the error message had just been "Error" so I had no
information. But by golly, when I aligned the user name and passwords like
you instructed, it went right through. Fantastic. Thanks!

John
 
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